Chapter 51: The Battle for Controversy (2) (Revised)
"The porridge field is closed now. Han Guangyuan repeated,
"Don't the victims outside the city need relief? Li Xuexin asked a little angrily, he seemed to have forgotten the original intention of coming to the town lord's mansion.
"This porridge field has not stopped, now the food in the city is limited, can only open a porridge field at noon, if it is opened at noon and in the evening, the food will soon run out, now the road is still not easy to walk, and the amount of food transported once is only enough to open once a day, and they will probably come back in the evening after the noon end. Han Guangyuan knew that Li Xuexin had misunderstood, and hurriedly clarified the misunderstanding with him.
"Oh, I see, where are the people who came back?" Zhao Yunchuan asked.
"They are all loading grain in the treasury at this time, and if they are loaded tomorrow, when they are transported to the place where the porridge is delivered, it will be too late to start the fire and boil the porridge. In order to prevent loss and artificial deduction, the grain is now stored in the treasury, and it is received when it is used, that is, when it is to go to the porridge, there are also soldiers to accompany and escort the whole process. Lord Han explained,
"Brother Guangyuan, take us over quickly, let's talk as we walk. Inspector Chu urged,
"Tianfeng, what's wrong with those who went to give porridge, or is there something wrong with the amount of food?" Han Guangyuan asked while leading the way, he thought to himself, "Didn't the monks of Xuanyang Academy come to hold the Immortal Ascension Meeting? Could it be that there is a problem with the grain that has been transported? Alas, if there is really a problem with the grain, it will be a bad thing. ”
"Is it the porridge field that Wei Chuanding went to open today, or is it Qian Yunda?" Chu Tianfeng didn't answer, but asked rhetorically.
"Hmm... Well... It should be Wei Chuanding. Lord Han thought for a moment and said,
"Then what did Qian Yunda do?" Chu Tianfeng asked,
"He should be in the carriage. Han Guangyuan said with some uncertainty,
"Lord Han, please send the soldiers to the carriage and horse shop to see if Qian Yunda is there, if he is there, call him here, if he is not there, let the soldiers ask him where he went. Go and go back. Li Xuexin said,
"Immortal Master, I will do this right away. Although Han Guangyuan was full of doubts, he still agreed, and then said a few words to Han Ping, the housekeeper who was following the three of them, and told him to verify it immediately.
Soon the four of them came to another courtyard, which was also in the town lord's mansion, which was the location of the Linjiang town treasury, and when it was far away from the courtyard gate, you could see that there were people carrying grain to the carriage, and some people were tying up grain bags, and everyone seemed extremely busy.
"Where is Wei Chuanding? Tell him to come over to see me quickly, and don't waste time. As soon as Han Guangyuan entered the courtyard door, he shouted open,
"Back to Lord Han, Master Wei said that the road is not easy to walk, and he wants to stay in Shangwa Village for one night, and he also said that when Master Qian goes to Xiawa Village tomorrow to help the victims, the two of them will come back together after opening the porridge field. A soldier dressed in the captain's costume stepped forward and said,
"What about the housekeepers and housekeepers of the Wei Chuanding family, where are they going, why are you loading food? Only then did Han Guangyuan realize that all the soldiers from Linjiang Town were busy working, and there was no one from the Wei Chuanding family.
"The town owner, Master Wei said that he has been very tight with money recently, in order to save expenses, he began to dismiss his family and servants from ten days ago, and there are fewer and fewer people from his family these days, all of whom we help to load and unload, and today there are a total of four people from his family, including Wei Chuanding, and they all stayed in Shangwa Village when we left. The captain explained,
"He just wants to leave Linjiang Town, he doesn't even want those vehicles and horses? But why? I just want to teach the two of them a profound lesson, I don't want to drive them out of Linjiang Town, Dean Wang didn't blame the two of them for Zhang Baisheng's matter. Han Guangyuan said to himself, he couldn't figure out what was going on,
"Is that true? But I didn't find anything at that time!" Inspector Chu muttered,
"What is true?" Li Xuexin asked,
"After the last time the demon cultivator deceived the convoy, I and Qi Qingquan's three senior uncles found the grain cart in the middle of the night, and the three of them took all the senior brothers and sisters, and everyone went to chase the demon cultivator who suddenly appeared, leaving me and Chu Mei to be responsible for the aftermath, but then two more senior brothers went and returned, they said that Uncle Qi felt that there was something wrong with these carriages, and suspected that the demon cultivator might have hidden more valuable things in it, and a few of us turned over the carriage one by one, and the goods contained on it were not let go, but no suspicious items were found。 Chu Tianfeng hurriedly explained,
"Then when you were at the door of Wei Chuanding's house before, why didn't you say this?" Li Xuexin asked,
"Uncle Li, the four of us didn't find anything at that time, and after the carriage returned to Linjiang Town, the two senior brothers also reported the matter to Dean Wang, and his old man also checked it himself, but still didn't find anything abnormal. Later, in order to transport grain, I unloaded the goods to the government warehouse, and the carriage has been transporting grain, and there was no incident during this period that the two of them wanted to return the goods and the carriage, so when I recounted the passage at the door of Wei Chuanding's house just now, I thought it was a trivial matter and did not say it, and now I am a little suspicious of this, they followed the porridge to take something secretly, maybe we didn't check it carefully at that time. Chu Tianfeng said,
"Dean Wang has checked it all, are we thinking too much? But why is Wei Chuanding in a hurry to leave? He doesn't want his son to enter Xuanyang Academy?" Li Xuexin said, obviously he also felt that this thing was strange,
"Senior Brother Li, I think there's something wrong with it, but it doesn't make sense to say that he doesn't let his children participate in the Immortal Ascension Meeting, everyone yearns for cultivating immortals. Zhao Yunchuan said,
"Senior Brother Zhao, I also think there is something wrong with it. Could it be that as Master Chu's nephew said, there was something on the carriage that was missed before and was not checked?"
"Han Guangyuan, Wei Chuanding and Qian Yunda, how are they in their daily lives?" Li Xuexin thought for a moment again, and asked Lord Han Zhen,
"The two of them are unprofitable, very stingy with money, and even more cunning in their work. Lord Han summarized,
"Come here, I have something to ask you. Li Xuexin called the captain who spoke before,
"Go to the porridge field, have you been going with it since the first day?"
"Yes, my lord. ”
"Then do Wei Chuanding and Qian Yunda follow every time they open a porridge field?"
"It's... Nor is it... This... How to say that. The soldier seemed to be a little entangled,
"What's not, be clear. Han Guangyuan scolded,
"Town Lord, you are angry, it's like this, Wei Chuanding goes to the porridge field every time, he is enthusiastic, and he rushes to wash rice every time he arrives at the place, but his speed is too slow, we have scooped the rice and started to boil the porridge, and he is still washing the rice slowly. The first time, we urged him to hurry up and wash the rice, but Wei Chuanding taught us a lesson: 'What if there is sand in it, it will be toothless, and there will be no love at all.' At that time, we all thought that his heart had suddenly become better, anyway, the rice could not be put in the pot at one time, and it was slow down, so we didn't interfere with what he did. The money—" The captain said when he was suddenly interrupted,
"Is every bag of rice you transport a rice that he scooped?" Li Xuexin asked.
"It's like... It seems like... It seems that he doesn't wash every bag of rice by himself, and the money arrives..."
"You stop for a moment. Master Chu's nephew, have you checked every grain of millet rice? No, no, did you spread out the rice and check it?" Li Xuexin seemed to have discovered something, and interrupted the soldier's narration with his words, but he also seemed a little anxious to speak, and his words were a little confused.
"Wei Chuanding personally washed rice, this is too abnormal. Zhao Yunchuan also said,
"I didn't spread it out to check, I reached into my hand to touch it, and I didn't feel at ease and weighed them one by one, and compared the size of each bag, and the final result was that all the rice bags were almost the same. Chu Tianfeng said,
"I'm afraid the problem really lies in this food, some things can only be measured with spells, and it is difficult to distinguish them by touching them with their hands. At that time, Dean Wang probably did not put his energy into this because there were too many disciples who died in the academy. You then say what happened to the money. After Li Xuexin finished talking about his guess, he motioned to the soldiers to continue,
"Yes, my lord, this money is not always there, and he doesn't go with us, either he goes early to wait for us, or he leaves late, and he never comes back with us, he always lets the family accompany us to go first, and every time he comes and goes alone, even the family is not allowed to accompany him, and he hides his head and tail like this Nine times out of ten, he goes to find a woman. The team was picking up on what they had just said.
"Hasn't he been renewing the string since his original match died?" Chu Tianfeng was a little puzzled,
"Mr. Chu, you may not know that he has not remarried, but the women in the family have never been broken, and the servants of his family call the women who are with Qian Yunda Mada. The soldier said with a smile,
"Alas, I remember, when we interrogated Wei Chuanding a month ago, Qian Yunda's family mentioned that his wife asked him to go to Wei Chuanding's house to inquire about things, and I didn't notice this detail at the time. Chu Tianfeng was a little annoyed,
"Senior nephew Chu, I can't blame you, after all, you are not familiar with his family, but I think this Qian Yunda is either a very romantic person or a person with secrets. ”